Website raising money to send Bridgeport slay victim home

Nidia Gonzalez and her daughter Aylin Sofia Hernandez. Ms Gonzalez was killed in her home in Bridgeport, Conn. on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Her brother, Jorge Luis Gonzalez Pinto, has started a gofundme page to help the family arrange a funeral to send her body to rest in peace in their home country, Guatemala.

Nidia Gonzalez and her daughter Aylin Sofia Hernandez. Ms Gonzalez was killed in her home in Bridgeport, Conn. on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Her brother, Jorge Luis Gonzalez Pinto, has started a gofundme page to

Nidia Gonzalez and her daughter Aylin Sofia Hernandez. Ms Gonzalez was killed in her home in Bridgeport, Conn. on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Her brother, Jorge Luis Gonzalez Pinto, has started a gofundme page to help the family arrange a funeral to send her body to rest in peace in their home country, Guatemala.

Nidia Gonzalez and her daughter Aylin Sofia Hernandez. Ms Gonzalez was killed in her home in Bridgeport, Conn. on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Her brother, Jorge Luis Gonzalez Pinto, has started a gofundme page to

BRIDGEPORT - Nidia “Yubi” Gonzalez had come here from her native Guatemala to make a better life for herself and now her family is trying to raise money to bring her body home.

Police said Gonzalez’s boyfriend, Oscar Hernandez, in a jealous rage stabbed the 26-year-old woman to death in their Greenwood Street basement apartment early Friday morning. He then fled with their 6-year-old daughter, Aylin, sparking an Amber Alert.

Hernandez, 39, who was in this country illegally and has a history of violence toward women, was later captured following a chase in Pennsylvania. He is expected to be returned to Bridgeport for prosecution following a hearing in a Pennsylvania court March 1.

“She was a cherished daughter, a loving sister and an amazing friend,” Gonzalez’s sister, El Shory Gonzalez, wrote Monday in a gofundme online campaign to raise money to return her sister’s body to Guatemala. “Yubi was always there to support and protect the ones she loved.”

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